1. Totally useful for the majority of carrier who does not have fever.
2. Cancel all large crowd event with only ~50 cases? Even in area where there wasn't any case?
3. Like where and how do you know they did not?
4. After they have a confirmed case, do they quarantine the close contact or they really just tell him to get back to work immediately as you said?
5. True, given that they probably have some emergency shelter plan for earth quake already.
6. Their economy is too coupled to stop all traffic. Stop issuing and revoking tourist visa would make sense.
7. So everyone with a minor cold need to be tested? By drowning your health care system with unnecessary test you run a risk of letting the real one slip through.
8. Sounds very easy to enforce and it is against their culture.
1. It will weed out some, rather than none.
2.Japan is nearing 100 now. And I'm talking things like Marathons, festivals, etc. stuff they would cancel due to bad weather or typhoons.
3.Nothing from what I've seen here.
4.I'm mostly referring to the Diamond Princess passengers. They were allowed to basically return to their usual. Considering there were hot cases even as they began to disembark, It basically showed the quarantine failed, and yet the let them out regardless.
6.They were gonna take an economic hit either way. Had they successfully stemmed the spread of the disease, they could have been back to normal within a couple of months. Now that it's spreading here as well, they might be fucked for many months after that, especially if people are to afraid to come to the olympics.
7. Like until recently, they have been turning away people wanting to get tested because they hadn't left the country. I'm not saying they should drag everyone with the sniffles off the streets, but if people are coming to them wanting to get tested, and they have matching symptoms, they should look into their cases.
8. Listening to authority is very much part of their culture. If the government is telling companies not to let sick people work, and bosses are telling employees to not come in or to go home, those employees will likely listen.